He invites another man to stay at a cottage he has use of on Block Island to escape a brutal heat wave, but alas when the time came the man had become too ill for the journey.
But, alas, when it reaches down into its pockets, we the public feel the touch.
I met Galway Kinnell – very briefly, alas – when I received a Cranbrook Writer's Guild Scholarship in the late 1970s.
But alas when it comes to his friendship with a man immersed in the world of defence contractors and lobbyists, Dr Fox's judgement has been exposed as rotten.
But alas, when the nets were pulled back in they were full of lots of cod, and only a very few monkfish.
But the need for preparation truly arises, as does the need for a doorman (alas!), when one arrives home carrying packages.
There are times, alas, when Junior does not enjoy the simple pleasures like whacking a ball over a fence, or skywalking to pull back a home run.
After intermission, alas, when the play is largely devoted to the frantic casting of the Perseus, it becomes overblown and overwrought.
Santorum, on the other hand, was dogged and disciplined and detail-oriented (even, alas, when the details involved the Cuban-Venezuelan-Bolivian "threat"), which paid dividends for him over the long haul that the debate calendar became.
It would have been lovely to gaze on the window of his study — but alas, when I arrived at 1550 San Remo Drive in Pacific Palisades, I discovered the house is almost entirely concealed by an enormous hedge.
There are moments, alas, when Passaro makes like a cultural diagnostician and ends up resembling a cut-rate DeLillo -- check out Will's cranky jeremiad about "the extinction of personality that is television," which makes you wish he'd lighten up.
